Oct 14 by-polls: ECP releases list of final candidates

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued the final list of candidates contesting the upcoming by-polls scheduled on October 14.

By-elections will be held on 11 NA and 26 vacant provincial assembly seats.

Among the seats where by-elections are to take place are NA-35, NA-53, NA-60, NA-63, NA-65, NA-69, NA-103, NA-124, NA-131 and NA-243.

Provincial assembly seats where by-elections will take place including 13 Punjab Assembly seats PP-3, PP-27, PP-87, PP-103, PP-118, PP-164, PP-165, PP-201, PP-222, PP-261, PP-272, PP-292 and PP-296.

Two seats of Sindh Assembly, PS-30 and PS-87 will be filled with by-polls.

In Balochistan, by-elections will be held in two constituencies, PB-35 and PB-40, whereas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by-elections will be held at nine assembly seats, PK-3, PK-7, PK-44, PK-53, PK-61, PK-64, PK-78, PK-97 and PK-99.

A list of final candidates from major political parties competing for National Assembly seats by-elections is as following:

NA-131 (Lahore-IX)

• Humayun Akhtar Khan — PTI
• Asim Mahmood — PPP-P
• Rana Umer Shahzad — TLP
• Khawaja Saad Rafiq — PML-N

NA-124 (Lahore-II)

• Ghulam Mohiuddin Dewan — PTI
• Shahid Khaqan Abbasi — PML-N
• Shahbaz Mahmood Bhatti — PPP-P
• Abid Sher Ali — Independent
• Salman Iqbal — TLP

NA-103 (Faisalabad-III)

• Manzoor Hussain — TLP
• Muhammad Saddullah — PTI
• Ali Gohar Khan — PML-N
• Shahadat Ali Khan — PPPP

NA-35 (Bannu)

• Nasim Ali Shah — PTI
• Syeda Yasmin Safdar — PPP-P
• Zahid Akram Durrani — MMA

NA-243 (Karachi East-II)

• Naeem Akhtar — MMA
• Muhammad Alamgir Khan — PTI
• Syed Nawazul Huda — TLP
• Sharafat Ali — PMl-N
• Amir Waliuddin Chishti — MQM-P
• Hakim Ali — PPP-P
• Syed Asif Hasnain — PSP

NA-69 (Gujrat-II)

Moonis Ilahi — PML-Q Raja Salamat Ali — TLP Imran Zafar — PML-N

NA-63 (Rawalpindi-VII)

• Syed Ishrat Ali Zaidi — PPPP
• Aqeel Malik — PML-N
• Qurban Ali — TLP
• Mansoor Hayat Khan — PTI

NA-60 (Rawalpindi-IV)

• Zahid Aqeel — TLP
• Sajjad Khan — PML-N
• Sheikh Rashid Shafique — PTI

NA-56 (Attock-II)

• Syed Faisal Mehmood Shah — TLP
• Malik Khuram Ali Khan — PTI
• Malik Sohail Khan — PML-N

NA-53 (Islamabad-II)

• Khan Iftikhar Shahzada — PPPP
• Abdul Hafeez — TLP
• Ali Nawaz Awan — PTI
• Waqar Ahmed — PML-N